Cigar-cell series



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0. L. PARMENTER.

CIGAR CELL SERIES.

Patentd Feb. 1, 1898.

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0. L.,PARMENTER. CIGAR CELL SERIES.

No. 598,485. Patented Feb. 1; 1898.

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wire STATES ORVILLE L. PARMENTER, OF RAOINE, WISCONSIN.

CiGAR-CELLSERIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,485, dated February 1, 1898 Application filed anuary 25, 1897. Serial No. 620,686. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known thatLORvILLE L. PARMENTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Racine, in the county of Racine and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Pockets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains' to make and use the same. 7

This inventionrelates to certain improve ments in cigar pockets or carriers.

It is a well-recognized fact that cigars are very delicate and exceedingly susceptible to atmospheric conditions and changes. No mat ter how carefully cigars are handled their wrappers and ends become chipped, cracked, broken, and ruffled, thereby rendering the cigars useless as first-class goods. If the wrappers become dry, the danger of cracking and breaking thereof is greatly increased by contact between the cigars in the box or in placing the same in or drawing the same from the pocket. An exceedingly moist or humid atmosphere, such as at the sea-coast, soon destroys the good qualities of cigars exposed to the influence thereof, and the same is true of an exceedingly dry atmosphere.

It is an object of this invention to provide a strip or series comprising a plurality of individual flexible paper pockets, each detachable intact and so formed as to expand to receive a cigar and so as to avoid sharp points or angles liable to rub or scratch the cigarwrapper and with its open or entrance end formed soft in a'suitable manner, as by fraying, to avoid scratching or cracking of the cigar-wrapper as the cigar is moved into or out of the pocket.

A further object of the invention is to provide an individual cigar holder or carrier of flexible paper, formed to expand to receive the cigar through its open end and having the paper forming the carrier provided with a plurality of slits or cuts around the open end of the carrier, thereby forming the plurality of soft flexible tongues around the open end of the carrier, which come in direct contact with the cigar as it is moved in or out, and thereby prevent sharp or somewhat rigid edges or points of the paper coming in contact with and rubbing against the wrapper of the cigar and thereby injuring the same.

Another object of the invention is to provide a flexible expansible individual paper .cigar carrier or pocket with an interior lining of material impervious to heat and moisture and preferably of an oily, fatty, or exceedingly soft or smooth nature or quality, whereby chafing of the cigar-wrappers is avoided, and injury to the cigars by reason of conditions of the atmosphere or by the heat of or other influences from the human body is avoided and the cigars can be kept in the same condition in which they are maintained in the box.

Another object of the invention 'is to provide a series of detachable paper cigar-pockets comprising a long paper backing having a plurality of parallel separated pockets transversely arranged on one face thereof with transverse lines of perforations through the backing and'between and parallel with the pockets, so that each pocket can be detached intact .and with its contained cigar, each pocket formedof a strip of paper bent to form the front,wit-h its ends meeting or overlapping vide certain improvements in constructions and in details ofparts whereby a highly-eh ficient and improved series of detachable paper cigar-pockets is produced.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in combinations and in arrangements of parts, as more fully and particularly pointed out and described hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a sheet or strip formed of a series of cigar-pockets, showing the same as an article of manufacture and as made and placed 011 the market. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken through the series or article of manufacture, showing the strip of paper forming the backing and to which the series of pockets are separately pasted or otherwise cemented. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective of one pocket as detached intact with its contained cigar. Fig. 4 isa top plan view represented as looking at the open end of the pocket, showing the tongues formed by the fraying of the paper backing and the paper and impervious lining of the pocket. Fig. 5 is an edge View of a pocket, showing how the peculiar creases or bends in the paper at the sides of the pocket tend to open the mouth or end of the pocket by reason of the elasticity of the paper. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the paper blank for the lining. Fig. 7 is a corresponding view of the blank from which a pocket is formed. Fig. 8 is a corresponding view of a part of the backing-sheet blank.

In the drawings, a is a long paper strip forming the backing of the completed series of pockets and in length equal to the length of the completed series, but in width slightly greater than the length of the completed pockets. This strip is formed with the series of straight parallel lines of perforations at, extending transversely across the sheet and equally spaced a distance equal to the width of each pocket, so that in the completed article the backing-sheet is perforated between the pockets.

1) are the individual cigar-pockets arranged parallel and transversely of the backing-sheet and close together on one side of the sheet, with the top edge of the sheet preferably ending flush with the top end of the pocket.

Each pocket is formed of a single sheet of the proper paper folded to form the closed outer side 2 of the pocket, and the two opposite sides 3 3, while the two ends 4 4 of the sheet are brought almost or entirely together or overlapped to form the back side of the pocket and are firmly pasted or otherwise cemented onto the baking-sheet a between two of the lines of perforations a, so that the pocket will be in width about equal to the space between said lines of perforations. The opposite sides 3 of the pocket are rendered collapsible by having the short angular in-and-out bends of such length as to leave the interior space of the pocket unobstructed, and yet so as to increase the elasticity of the sides in their tendency to open the mouth of the pocket, as hereinafter set forth. Each side is formed with two or more short inwardly-projecting angular bends 8 and with three or more corresponding alternating outwardly-projecting bends 3". After the pockets have been thus formed and pasted at their rear walls or sides to the backing-sheet the lower edge a" of said backing sheet is turned around over and pasted onto the lower ends of the pockets, so as to tightly close and hold the pockets compressed at their lower ends, thus forming an elongated-sheet of a plurality of individuallycomplete detachable pockets which can be each detached complete and intact without injury with its contained cigar and without disturbin g the remaining pockets or their cigars, as each pocket is made of its own sheet of paper and is only connected with the other pockets by the backing-sheet,and each pocket when removed has its rear side strengthened and stiffened by the section of the backing-sheet between the rows of perforations and to which the pocket is pasted.

Each pocket is provided with a lining impervious to moisture and constituting a nonconductor and which is preferably of an oily or fatty or such a smooth nature as to permit the cigars -slipping into and out of the pocket without chafing or rubbing. VVaX-paper or other equivalent material can be employed for this purpose, and in making the pockets an oily or fatty surface could be formed directly 011 the inner surface of the sheet constituting the pocket; but I prefer to employ a separate loose liningsheet c in each pocket of wax-paper or equivalent material.

The lining-sheets are usually cut out the same,

size as the sheets to form the pockets and are placed thereon and folded therewith in making the pockets, so as to conform to all the bends and faces of the interior of the pocket. The wax-sheets are usually not pasted to the backing-sheet, but form a loose soft lining for the pocket, preventing injury to the cigars and acting as a cushion therefor and also preserving the cigars against the detrimental action of the atmosphere and of the heat from the human body and preserving the cigars in the same condition as when taken from the box. In fact, this impervious lining acts as a pocket-humidor in preserving the cigar in the proper moist condition.

The upper end of each pocket is formed with the plurality of closely-arranged approximately-parallel slits or cuts extending downwardly from the edge of the paper around the mouth of the pocket and forming the plurality of narrow, soft, and flexible tongues (1 around the mouth of the pocket. The backing-sheet, as well as the impervious lining and paper forming the pocket, is thus frayed at the edge.

In inserting the cigar in the pocket it thus comes in contact with the soft flexible surface of tongues 01 and is thereby preserved from the injury due to chafing against the sharp and somewhat rigid edges and points of the paper at the mouth of the pocket.

I do not herein broadly claim the series of individual paper cigar-cells, each formed of an independent sheet of paper and pasted side by side on a single backing-sheet forming the connection between the pockets, as such forms the basis of my application, Serial No. 531,368, filed December 10, 1894; also, I do not herein broadly claim a series of paper cells secured on a backing-sheet, each cell having its collapsible sides formed with a plurality of in-and-out short folds the length of the IIO cell and thus forming cushions between the cells, as such is claimed in my application, .Serial No. 554,952, filed July 5, 1895.

It is evident that the pockets described can be employed for other purposes than to receive cigars and that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I do not wish to limit myinvention to the precise constructions and arrangements herein set forth, but consider myself entitled to all such modifications and variations as fall within the scope and spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully describcdthe invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A sheet of detachable paper cigar-pockets comprising a backing-sheet having transverse parallel lines of perforations, equally spaced, with the pockets arranged transversely on one face of the sheet between the lines of perforations, each pocket frayed at its upper end and formed of a single sheet faced with a sheet of wax-paper and folded to .form the pocket with its ends brought together and pasted to the backing, the sides of the pocket formed with two or more short inward angular bends, and three or more short outward angular bends, substantially as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a series of parallel long narrow paper pockets, pasted on a backing-sheet, the upper end of each pocket formed soft and pliable by slits forming soft tongues, so that a cigar on being inserted is cushioned from engagement with sharp or stiff edges of paper, substantially as described. V

3; A collapsible paper cigar-pocket formed of a sheet of folded paper with its ends secured at the back of the pocket, and a loose lining impervious to moisture folded with said sheet, said lining and sheet formed with soft pliable tongues surrounding the mouth or open ,end of the pocket, for the purposes, substantially as described.

4. As an article of manufacture, a sheet of cigar-pockets comprising a single backingsheet, and a series of pockets thereon, each pocket formed of an independent sheet of paper pasted on the backing so that the pockets are arranged side by side and connected only by the single backing-sheet, said backingsheet separable on lines between the pockets, each pocket formed soft or pliable around its open end, as by fraying or longitudinally slitting the paper thereof, substantially as described.

5. As an article of manufacture, a sheet of cigar-pockets comprising a single backingsheet, and a series of cigar-pockets arranged side by side on one side of said single sheet which forms the only connection between the pockets, each pocket formed of an independ ent sheet of paper with a loose lining-sheet impervious to moisture and of approximately the same size, and folded therewith to form the collapsible sides with the plurality of short angular in-and-out bends, the ends of said sheet forming the pocket being secured to the backingsheet, the plurality of short angular i'n-and-out bends holding the lining sheet in its proper place within thepocket and against pulling out with a cigar, substantially as described.

6. A paper cigar-cell formed long and narrow to snugly receive a cigar and havinga closed end, two sides of the cell formed collapsible with a plurality of short angular inward folds and a plurality of short angular outward folds, said folds not extending into the central open portion of the cell and extending the full longitudinal length thereof from end to end and arranged parallel, the cell formed soft and pliable around its open end or mouth by longitudinally slitting or fraying the paper at that point to form tongues so that the tapered end of the cigar, on insertion into the cell, engages said pliable tongues and thus forces the cell open gradually without injury to the cigar-wrapper and without engaging sharp cutting paper edges at such longitudinal folds, substantially as described.

7. A long narrow paper cigar pocket or cell having the paper around its open end formed with a pliable, soft, frayed or slitted surface or e-nd,and having the collapsible sides,whereby the tapered end of the cigar first engages said soft surface on entering the pocket and presses openand distends the same without cutting or injury to the cigar wrapper by engaging sharp or stiff paper cutting edges, substantially as described.

1 8. A long narrow paper cigar pocket or cell formed of two rectangular sheets of the same size, the inner sheet of an oily nature impervious to moisture, said sheets folded together without being secured to each other, to form the two collapsible sides each with a plurality of short in-and-out angular folds extending the full length of the cell and whereby the inner sheet is held in the cell against pulling out with a cigar by the friction and pressure at said pluralities of intermeshing short side folds, the ends of the outer sheet pasted to a backing-sheet, the lower end of the cell compressed and closed by pasting the backingsheet over the same, substantially as described.

9. Asan article of manufacture, a series of connected paper cigar cells or pockets each formed long and narrow and closed at one end and having the collapsible sides and an interior lining or coating of an oily and smooth nature impervious to moisture, the end of the pocket being frayed or slitted through the collapsible sides and front and back forming pliable tongues having the lining or coating of an oily nature so that cigars can be moved into and out of the pocket without injury to the Wrappers thereof by friction and can be carried in the pocket without injury from the heat of the body or conditions of the atmosphere. I

10. The sheet of paper cigar-cells comprising a backing-sheet and the series of collapsible paper cells pasted thereon, the open end of each cell formed and surrounded by a surface of pliable tongues integral With the cell and coated or lined by an oily smooth material to prevent injury to the Wrappers of the cigars forced into and distending the cells,

substantially as described.

-11. A series-of paper cigar-cel1s comprising a backing-sheet and paper cells pasted transversely thereon with closed lower ends-and open upper ends, the upper ends of the cells formed with longitudinal closely-arranged slits or outs completely through the cells and backingsheet.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. I

ORVILLE L. PARMENTER. WVitnesses:

BYRON B. BLAKE, A. J. BLAKE. 

